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“There are moments in life, so monumental and still, that the memory can never be retrieved without a catch to the throat or an interruption to the beat of the heart. Can never be retrieved without the rumbling disquiet of how close that moment came to not having happened at all.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“How beautiful is sunset, when the glow of heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou paradise of exiles, Italy.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
The "As Yet Untitled" Bookclub
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— last activity Nov 29, 2015 05:01PM
A group of twenty-somethings who get together once a month to eat food, drink wine, and sometimes talk about a book.
Alessandra’s 2025 Year in Books
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